Sonya Girl
How popular is Sonya?
#1,927 girl name in 2025
100 baby girls were named Sonya in the US in 2025, making it the 1927th most popular girl name.
Sonya popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,927 for girls (▼ 14 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 100 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-39% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,411 in 2015, #1,792 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1967 (2,980 girls) |
| Highest rank | #114 in 1967 |
| First recorded | 1905 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sonya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sonia family of names ranked #850 for girls in 2025 (#854 the year before), with 271 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sonia | 171 | 63% |
| Sonya | 100 | 37% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sonya is most popular
Babies named Sonya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Colorado: 0.1 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.1 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (66 girls)
- Washington: 0.1 per 1,000 (11 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.1 per 1,000 (18 girls)
Sonya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 18 | #1,607 |
| 1910s | 209 | #1,040 |
| 1920s | 416 | #786 |
| 1930s | 1,655 | #427 |
| 1940s | 1,759 | #486 |
| 1950s | 3,664 | #339 |
| 1960s | 22,289 | #114 |
| 1970s | 19,468 | #122 |
| 1980s | 8,428 | #215 |
| 1990s | 3,385 | #510 |
| 2000s | 2,279 | #890 |
| 2010s | 1,568 | #1,241 |
| 2020s | 634 | #1,792 |
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Questions
- Is Sonya a boy or girl name?
- Sonya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sonya were girls.
- How popular is the name Sonya?
- 100 baby girls were named Sonya in the US in 2025, making it the 1927th most popular girl name.
- When was Sonya most popular?
- Sonya peaked in 1967, when 2,980 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #114 in 1967.
- How many people are named Sonya?
- 65,954 babies have been named Sonya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 59,266 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 55.
- Where is Sonya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sonya was most common in Colorado, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.